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Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-06-09
a Liberal Offer.

\ WILL give free of rent, taxes and all in
cumberance, the use of my shore, 200 feet
front, known as sycamore Point on Horn
Point, opposite Annapolis to ANY ONE who
will erect thereon an oyster House for the use
OF the Shells. Apply to JOHN CUNNING,
525tf ANNAPOLIS, Md.
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NOTICE-

thereby warn all persons from receiving any
Checks from my pickers as | will redeem none
except those coming direct from the pickers.
m302w w. w. HAWKINS
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FOR Sale

A SAIL and ROW w-BoAT, in good order
"A nearly new, with complete outfit, embrace
ing oars. oarlocks. anchor &c., cheap. Apply
at this Office. 5-2Stf
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PROF. PEAL'S

- 54LGG S4EI &6RS,
VIII sernade private families with vocal and
instrumental music, at short notice for a trif-
ling sum. Guitar, cornet, and violin instru-
ments only used. The band includes some of
the finest yocalists in the State. Address,
5-2Sf PROF. ED. PEAL AnnapOlis.
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AA FOR RENT.-HOUSE IG2 King George
kGa Street, from July LIST. Apply to MRS. NJ
l., STEELE, Duke of Gloucester Street. 6w
TOR SALE-A desirable building LOT on
a Charles Street near Gloucesrer-ffty-tw
feet front, one hundred and twenty-siX feet
deep Sewer in Street. Apply at THIS OFFICE
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FOR SAIE-

The Schooner BESSIE with complete out
Mt now lying off Dubois wharf, Apply at No.
East street 5-30w
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EAT BOAT. 20 feet long, in splendid or
VA 4 der, for sale. Apply at This Or
FICE. 5lS
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-06-09
For Sale Cheap-

A new "BALTIMORE HEATER" in good
condition. VIII be sold cheap Apply at 7t
Prince George street. 516
Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-06-09

small, comfortable HOUSE. within five or
ten minutes walk of the Middle Gate, u s.
Naval Academy; or would rent good rooms
Apply at this Office 67-w.
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LOST
Wanted to. Rent

An EMERALD SET, in gold fastening. Re-
ward If left at CAPITAL Office. 61-Iw
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For Sale

a. DIV ELLING on Prince Georges Street,
keA 5 rooms-renting for $500 per month
will sell cheap for cash. Apply 10 JULIAN
BREWER n23w
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zs=zxA FOR SALE.-A capital COW for
sale cheap. Also RANGE, and a
VII ~ baltimore HEATER. Apply at L.
AzzA-A~ PARROTTS1 / Gloucester Street
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Cemetery Notice.


Limited Number OF Horses and Colts will
be taken on PASTURAGE. Tip-top grass
with both fresh and salt water in field. Apply
TO II: ). RIDoUT st. Margarets, A. A. Coun-
ty, Md. *63 I'm
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EOUND-On the train of the Annapolis and
n Baltimore Short Line railroad, Ladys
UMBhELLA. with rubber band around the
same. The owner can get the same by calling
on the ticket agent at Annapolis, and paving
Tor this notice. 4-z5tf
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SSsA Boats For Sale or Hire
If you want good SAILING
BAITEAU, from l6 to ~ IT.,
new in stock. or already rugged that recon-
mend themselves for shape aud speed, when
you see or use them. cheap for cash. Only
one price. Apply 10 A. T. EkLAN DSON, foot
of Prince George Street. 5lItf
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bouquets and Flowers.

Persons can be supplied with beautiful Bou
very low prices. Apply at No, Green ST
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-07-23
THE MISUET.
The Stately and Graceful Dance In Which
Our Ancestors Delighted.

The Stately and Graceful Dance In Which
Our Ancestors Delighted.
The minuet is most probably direct de-
scendant of the pavone of the sixteenth cen,
fury, so called because the ladies were in the
habit of spreading their trains on the ground.
much as the peacock does its tail Under the
Stuart kings the gaillard and the coranto.
dances bearing strong family likeness to
the minuet, were in fashion, and so was the
louvre, an exceedingly grave and stately
measure. The minuet made its appearance
in the last half Of the reign of Louis XIV.
and is said to be of Italian origin, although
the French state that it was first executed in
Poitou. Jean Baptist Lully is generally sup
posed to have been its inventor, and to have
written the first music for it. Throughout
the whole of the eighteenth century this
dance held its own and even far into our
times it was popular; for it was revived under
the first empire, after having fallen into
disuse for some time during the reign of ter
ror. 1t was, doubtless too aristocratic and
stately a step to suit the taste of Messieurs les
Sdnscutottes. There was time when a liberal
education was not considered complete I'M
less it included proper knowledge of the
mlnuet. A lesson in this, however, killed
several birds with one stone for it embraced
Initiation into the mysteries of how to bow.
and how to enter or leave room with grace
Saturday Review.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-07-23
MEXICAN CROPS,
Modern Enterprise With Old-fashioned
Notions and Ways.

Between San Juan del Rio and Queretaro
the Mexican Central traverses the fields of
one Mexican farmer who raises &C, 900 BUSH
els of wheat year. There are six or seven
haclendas in the same locality where the
crops reach 10000 bushels; and 10000 BUSH
els of wheat means 10000 bushels of corn,
ZOOO bushels of peas and 5000 bushels of
beans on the same hacienda. That is the
way the Mexican farmer of this part of Mex.
leo diversities his crops. He raises wheat,
corn, beans and peas in about the proportion
given. Occasionally there is specialist like
the farmer near Queretaro who goes into the
raising OF chile, the hot peppers of this coun-
try. This man usually has 20, 900 chile plants
or vines.
The big hacienda of this region is not in
sight from the railroad. 1t is hidden by some
hills. The Mexican who owns that place
raised last year 16, 600 bushels of wheat, 10000
bushels of corn and $4,000 bushels of BEANS
Not long ago he decided to buy ranch ad-
Joining him and he paid $4,000 in cash for
1t. This Mexican has thrashng machine,
seed drills, sulky plows and five carriages OF
different patterns, but he still insists on max
ing and using the old Mexican harness of
rawhide strings. His mules have no collars
and pull the seed drills and the sulky plows
by straps OF rawhide across the breast. This
combination of modern enterprise with some
old-fashioned notions is ludlcrous There
are farmers in this corn country of QueretarC
who wouldn't think of going back to the old
Wooden-stick pillow now that they have tried
the American steel share, and vet they scrup-
ulOusly adhere to the old rule of using oxen
OF one color in the first half of the day and
oxen of another color in the afternoOn.-&.
Louis Globe Democrat
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-07-23
THE DOG ROSE.
AUGUSTA n. CROKER,

A sandy road straight leading to the sea,
And all the landscape of neutral tint,
Save where the wild-rose bloom does surely
hint
That June has come once more with bird
and bee.
Among the dropping grasses of the beach,
Within this barren soil, no tree has grown,
But year by year, in reckless haste out
thrown,
Wind from the sea, that Yer leagues of foam
Comes with the scent of rocky weed in its
track,
And brings to pale, wan cheeks the life
blood back,
l love. you well, nor far from you would
roam.
But better still love the wild-rose bloom,
Its perfume sweet that all the air does fill,
ltmakes my pulses once again to thrill,
My heart would bound though it were sunk
in gloom.
So here beside the sea, link between
The water and the land, the roses grow.
They bloom but to decay; too soon we
know
They fade, yet sweetest in their death are
seen.
Thus to our lives, so often dull and gray,
Where what we must, not what we will, IS
law,
God alwa sends some lovely gift to draw
Our hearts to Him and brighter make the
way Boston Daily advertiser.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-07-23
THE CROP PROSPECTS.
Latest Reports from the Leading Cereaf
Growing States.

Latest Reports from the Leading Cereaf
Growing States.
Reports on the yield ofthe winter wheat crop
are now coming in and thus far corroborate
| the previous statements as to the shortage
that might be expected. Missouri leads IN
her average and is followed by Illinois, while
the other States are in the following relative
positions: Kentucky, Michigan, Indiana,
Ohio and. last, Kansas, where the chlnch
bug has done serious damage.
AS yet the reports on the average yield OF
the winter wheat crop are just beginning to
come in but the following from the different
States probably furnishes correct indication
of the final results OF the harvest: Twelve
counties in Illinois report an average of sew
enteen bushels, and four counties place the
average condition of the crop at seventy
eight per cent; nine counties in Indiana
place the average at fourteen bushels, and
three counties the average condition at sew
enty per cent, seven counties in Michigan
report an average yield of fifteen bushels;
eleven counties in Ohio report yield of thir-
teen bushels, while five counties report the
condition at eighty-five per cent. the yield
IN twelve Missouri counties is eighteen bush
els, and the condition in three is 1O8 per
cent; five counties in Kentucky place the
yield at sixteen bushels; in Kansas nine
counties report an average yield of eleven
bushels, and five an average condition Of
itty-fve per cent
Seventeen counties in Illinois complain of
damage to crops by drouth. Like complaints
come from six counties in Indiana and thir-
teen Kansas counties report damage from
insects and drouth Rain is needed in Ken
lucky and Wisconsin, and six Missouri coun-
ties complain Of damage by drouth.
;. Inc condition Of the spring wheat in the
different States is rs follows: Seventeen
counties IN Iowa report an average condition
OF Seventy-tour per cent, while thirteen
counties III Minnesota place it at seventy-fve
per cent. eleven counties in Nebraska renort
an average of eighty-six per cent, and that
same number i'll Dakota place it at eighty
nine per cent.
AS was expected, the hay crop turns out
light, and pastures We're nearly dry. The
prospect for the crop of apples in the West
is dropping from the trees.-lhtcago Furm-
ers Rentem
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-07-23
LABOR IN THE sol TIL.
What is Paid in Wages in Five States TO
UnskiIled WOrkmen.

| What is Paid in Wages in Five States fol-
Unskilled Workmen.
Apropos ofthe ftful discussion about tn,
condition of laborers and the price of labo
in the South an inquiry has been made, a:
part of general inquiry into wages, to as
certain the facts. Five Southern States were
selected-North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee
Alabama and Mississippi and personal let
tiers were sent to trustworthy persons (some
white, some black in every county in these
States The first inquiry made was: what
wages are paid III your community for ordi
nary unskilled labor? FOrty-tiye answers
have been received from Tennessee, forty
two from North Carolina, tifty-four from
Georgia. ffty-one from Mississippi, and
forty-two from Alabama.
Some answers give the wages by the day,
and some by the month for unskiled labor.
Classified, the replies fall into the following
groups:
First by the month
NC Tenn. Ca Ala Miss.
E Erem th IS to $780, &c.: 9 8 9 & L L
Ave. per month. 50 90 $ll "A sl2 80 $40 IS 80 90
By the day.
NC. Tenn. Ga. Ala. Miss
i kfs sr t mape 3d.: Is i i J! i 8 ls
ave. per uay.. NC. 81 10 81 US 81 w Nt9C.
1t will be observed that there 5 a striking
correspondence between the average wages
per day and the average wages per month
reported from each State. This is. in fact,
striking confirmation Of tie accuracy Of the
averages. Thus monthly wages in North
Carolina are little lower than in any other
State, and so are the daily wages. The next
lowest is Mississippi, where day wages aver
age ninety and a-half cents and monthly
wages $40. Alabama shows little higher
average in both. Tennessee shows the high
est average in daily wages reported, although
in the reports of monthly wages those from
Georgia are higher than those from Ten
nessee.
A fair general average of all the States is
between ten dollars and eleven dollars q
month, and about one dollar day. This
would seem to indicate that the average un
skilled laborer in these States works not more
than eleven days in month. But this diff
ference is partly explained by the fact that as
q rule when wages are paid daily, board is
excluded, and when paid monthly, board or
'rations' is included. A little more than
ten dollars month the year round and ra
tons is about fair summary of all the
answers. In great many, If not most cases,
a house or shanty is also included. So that
beard and lodging and from ten dollars to
eleven dollars is the average pay for the day
laborer in these States-Neir York Special
to Chicago Tribune.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-07-23
MEXICAN BELLS.
They Are Remarkable for Sweetness and
SOftneSs of Tone.

In the large tower of Morella hangs the
monster bell, which is rarely sounded, but
there are many others of moderate size which
are continually Ginning. All these bells,
and indeed nearly all the bells in the repub-
lie. are remarkable for sweetness and softness
of tone. 1t is very rarely that one hears q
harsh bell They are exceedingly melodious
and pleasing. 1t is sometimes explained
that this is due to the mixture of silver in
the bell-metal, and that the new bells are
cast from old metal. l believe that the chief
reason why the Mexican bells are so much
more musical than ours is that the Mexican
bells are artistically made, shaped with
reference to tone, thin at the edge, each one
work of art intelligently manipulated, not
mechanically cast without reference to the
sound it shall produce. The great bells are
struck with clapper, and not swung. There
would be much less objection to the use of
church bells in the United States-the harsh
and barbarous jangle which shocks the Sun
day stillness-if our bells had any of the
musical quality of the Observation-Disclosures
Magazine
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-07-23

And standing on one side of the we'll of
eternal rapture your children; and stand
ing on the other side of eternal rapture
your Christian ancestry; you will be
bounded on all sides by joy so keen
and grand that no other world has ever
been permitted to experience it. Out of
that one deep well Of Heaven the shep-
herd will dip reunion for the bereaved,
wealth for the poor, health for the sick,
rest for the weary. And then all the
flock of the Lords sheep will lie down in
the green pastures, and world without
end we will praise the Lord that on this
summer Sabbath morning we were per-
Rachel, the shepherdess, at the well in
MesOpOtamia
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-07-23
A SUCCESSFUL SWINDLER.
Bogus Bostonian Victimizes Number
of Citizens of Griffin, Ga.


of Citizens of Griffin, Ga.
This city, the society of which brides itself
upon its exclusiveness is just now the victim
of long-continued confidence game, which
has been exposed by the forgery practced by
H. o. Wood upon his father-in-law Mr. Hill
About fourteen months ago an elegant
stranger registered at the Helms House as
H. O. Wood, of Boston. He evinced great
interest in Southern Development repre-
sented himself as a man of means, and was
welcomed as an angel of reconciliation. He
also passed as a Federal veteran and frater-
nized with the local military He attended
barbecue given by the Spalding Grays,
veteran association which had preserved its
organization since the war, and spoke sc
teellngly that he was at once made an hon
orary member and about a month later
was actually elected president of the COM
pany. Nor did his triumphs end here He
conquered the ladies'; he made love to Miss
Hill, a girl worth in her own right 100000
and went on bridal trip to Europe. When
he returned he began negotiations for the
erection of bank, the money for which was
to come from Boston, with the exception Of
just enough to secure local directors. Three
weeks ago he went to Cincinnati to arrange
for his safes, since which time nothing has
been heard from him. 1t has been devel-
oped that his Boston connections are fraudu-
lent; that he mortgaged his wifes real estate
TO the Carbin company that he victimized
the directors of the proposed bank for loans
of from 5000 to 5000 each and that he
has forged the name of his father-in-law to
note for $4,000 on the Gate City Bank, OF
Atlanta. His wife is Frustrated with grief over
the developments, while his father-in-law is
the recipient of universal sympathy
{ Ga J Special
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-07-23
The New Telephone.

The new Herr telephone which has been
introduced experimentally in Paris and Brus-
sells is very simple in construction and can
be made for half dollar. A New York ex-
pert, speaking of it, says that the telephone
ofthe future will unquestionably be cheaper
and far more perfect instrument than we
now have, and will be used to an extent not
now dreamed OF. "The perfect telephone of
1900 ought not to cost more than 81, and tele-
phone service in that year ought not to cost
more than IS year, to put it at an extraya-
gantly high figure. Telephones will be as
essential in house as gas and water are now,
and they will be used for house service in,
stead of speaking tubes and door bells.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-07-23
THE WASTE OF GAS IN INDIANA.
Millions of Feet Allowed to Escape from
the Wells.


s. S. Gorby, assistant State geologist, has
been in Marion to see the new gas wells
Nos. and 5. Mr.. Gorby has visited all the
gas fields in Indiana, and finds no territory
equal to that of Grant county. He is vigor-
Gus in his Remuneration of the gross waste OF
gas everywhere that it is discovered in In
diana. A majority of the sixty-tive gas
wells in the State he says, are left open,
allowing the escape of millions of feet OF
gas daily, which has value as clearly de-
fined as wood or coal. He says that $i2, 900
is lost daily by the Paramount WELL and un-
less the waste is prohibited by legislation, he
says the gas will soon exhaust itself. Mr..
Gorby has original ideas of the amount of
gas required for small towns He SAYS that
the total production of the Portland wells
is less than Zoo, GOO feet, yet it is abundant
for the town. The Indiana gas he says, has
twice the heating power of that of Pennsvl-
developed than any State in the Union
Marion (Iad.) Chronicle.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-07-23
A Remedy for Potato Blight,

The study of fungus diseases of plants anc
experiments made here and abroad in the
treatment of this class of diseases has led
T. F. Scribner, chief of the bureau of vege.
table pathology, to a conviction that much
of the enormous annual loss to American
farmers from potato and tomato rot and
blight may be prevented by timely appli-
cation of simple remedies containing basis
of sulphate of copper, and a circular pre-
agriculture, suggesting in detail methods of
preparing and applying the remedy as a
spray or powder, will soon be ready for
issue WASHINGTON Dispatch
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-07-23
The Intelligent Agricultural.

Got any COW bels?'
Eyes, step this way"
Those are too small. Haven't you any
larger?''
No, sir; the largest ones are all sold"
Rusticus started off and got as far as the
door, when the clerk called after him:
Look here, stranger take one of these
small bells for your COW, and you won't have
half the trouble in finding her; for when you
hear her bell you will always know she can't
be far off,
The farmer bought the bell.-Teras Sfti,gs.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-07-23
Unreasonable Creatures

"Women are unreasonable creatures" OBJ
served Brown, as he ordered another round
for the boys Now, there's my wife. Be-
her, she always thought it was too early for
me to go home, and now can't 90 home
early enough to suit her."-Nep York Sun.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-07-23

"Oh, what is so rare as a day in June?"
Asks Lowell. Well, opinions vary; .
But the day most rare we must declare,
Is the twenty ninth of February.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-07-23

Chinese Sunday school-Teacher( reading).
And Elijah the prophet" Do you know
what prophet means?
Scholar-Yes, me know velly we'll.
Teacher (surprised)-Do youP Well, what
is it?
Scholar-Me buy sing fl cent sell fifteen
cent ploft ten cent.-Harper's Bazaar.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-07-23
FANCY FOWLS.
SOME BIG PRICES PAID FOR THOR
OUGHBRED CHICKENS.

"A Plymouth Rock Brings $3.50 at the New
Orleans Exposition-Careful and Scien-
tiic Breeding Necessary to Produce the
Best Results-A Fashion in Breeds,
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-07-23

Edwin Forrest took to theatrical dissipa-
ton. And men have run all around the
earth, hoping in the quick transit to get
away from their misfortunes. at has
been dead failure. There is orely one
well that can slake the thirst of an
afflicted spirit, and that is the deep and
inexhaustible we'll of the Gospel.
But some one says in the audience ::
Notwithstanding all you have said this
morning, l find no alienation for my
troubles" Well, am not through yet.
| have left the most potent consideration
for the last. I am going to soothe you
with the thought of Heaven. However
laxative we may be, there will come
time when the stoutest and most en-
phatic Interrogation will evoke from us
no answer. AS soon as we have closed
our lips for the final silence, no power on
earth can break that taciturnity. But
where, O Christian, will be your spirit?
In scene of infinite gladness The
spring morning of Heaven waving its
blossoms in the bright air. Victors fresh
from battle showing their scars. The
rain of earthly sorrow struck through
with the rainbow of eternal Joy. In one
group God and angels and the redeemed
Paul and Silas, Latimer and Ridley,
Isaiah and jeremiah, Payson and John
Milton, Gabriel and Michael the archan-
gel. Long line of choristers reaching
across the hills. Seas of joy dashing
10 the white beach. Conquerors march
ing from gate to gate. You among them
Oh, what great flock of sheep God
will gather around the celestial we'll! No
stone on the wells mouth while the
shepherd waters the sheep. There Jacob
will recognize Rachel, the shepherdess
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-07-23
A Cue Full of Worldly Wisdom.

The farmer bought the bell.-7ezas SUtings.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-12-08
She worked Her Road Tax.

Mrs. Clara L. Brewster, President of
the Linn County Kan.) Woman Suf-
frage Association, tells an amusing
story about her experience as tax
payer of Linn county. She says: II
was riding to my school one morning
II was school teacher, when a man
called to me, and, in an insulting man
ner, told me that / was ordered to
work out my road tax on such day
I told him I would be ready. There
was no need of telephone or telegraph
to spread the news. 1t flashed from
house to house, at lightning speed, that
q school teacher-a woman-was going
to work out her road tax. When the
day arrived, every one who had been
notified was on hand, and worked my
road tax-as Horace Greeley and Presi-
dent Cleveland fought their battles in
the great Rebellion, By sending a sub
stitute."